The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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... Father " a vile Melan choly " -His account of the Members of his Family - Traditional Stories of his Precocity- Taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for the Scrofula , ยท 24 CHAPTER II . 1716-1728 . Johnson goes to School at ...
... Father " a vile Melan choly " -His account of the Members of his Family - Traditional Stories of his Precocity- Taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for the Scrofula , ยท 24 CHAPTER II . 1716-1728 . Johnson goes to School at ...
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... father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of obscure extiaction , who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer . His mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ancient race of substantial yeomanry in Warwickshire ...
... father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of obscure extiaction , who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer . His mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ancient race of substantial yeomanry in Warwickshire ...
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... father's misfortunes in trade rendered him anable to support his son ; and for some time there appeared no means by which he could maintain himself . In the December of this year his father died . 1 The state of poverty in which he died ...
... father's misfortunes in trade rendered him anable to support his son ; and for some time there appeared no means by which he could maintain himself . In the December of this year his father died . 1 The state of poverty in which he died ...
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